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* Brain-to-brain network allows three people to share their thoughts >>
* Tim Berners-Lee project gives you more control over web data >>
* A Google Product Management Lead on What CI/CD Really Means >>

* A new blood test may detect sleep deprivation >>
* The Rise of Dataism: A Threat to Freedom or a Scientific Revolution? >>
* Baidu CEO Robin Li says artificial intelligence will have much bigger impact on society than the internet >>

* HPE powered an AI that beat the best poker players >>
* The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Learning >>
* The first “social network” of brains lets three people transmit thoughts to each other’s heads >>

* ISSUE 126: Salt: A Lazy Person’s Kubernetes? >>
* ‘I want to learn Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Where can I start?’ >>
* Tech Was Supposed to Be Society’s Great Equalizer. What Happened? >>

* From robot dinosaurs to ending fake news… >>
* 5 takeaways on the state of AI from Disrupt SF >>
* Disney shuts down kid-friendly Club Penguin Island to cut costs >>

* Chaos engineering service Gremlin raises $18M, launches new resiliency tools >>
* Google really wants you to use Maps and search to plan your next outing >>
* India’s Mars Orbiter just sent back its first shots of the Red Planet >>

* S.E.C. Goes After Musk With Its ‘Ultimate’ Penalty. Here’s Who Else Has Been Barred. >>
* Elon Musk Pulled Out of Settlement With SEC At Last Minute >>
* Elon Musk Is His Own Worst Enemy >>

* Use the 100x Method to Only Start Worthwhile Projects >>
* Digital IDs Are More Dangerous Than You Think >>
* Darpa Goes Underground for Its Most Daring Robot Extravaganza Yet >>

* The Boeing 747 Is Turning 50. Here’s How the ‘Queen of the Skies’ Came to Reign Over Air Travel >>
* Fujifilm’s next medium format camera has 100 megapixels and in-body stabilization >>
* AI-produced artwork is moving from the fringes into the high art world >>

* The death of once high-flying VC funds >>
* Live streams of karate and niche sports are terrifying major sports leagues >>
* Learn AI for Free >>

* The future of work goes beyond the predictions of the World Economic Forum >>
* Twenty years of building for everyone >>
* Auckland startup FaceMe provides Vodafone with virtual human >>

* The ‘blood boy’ clinic is coming to NYC so rich people can live forever >>
* NASA’s pint-sized satellite could improve weather forecasts >>
* NASA’s bold-ish plan for the next era takes us to the moon and Mars… eventually >>

* To Break a Hate-Speech Detection Algorithm, Try ‘Love’ >>
* Human-like A.I. will emerge in 5 to 10 years, say experts >>
* Mathematicians must be more prepared to test their truths >>

* How to Search for Dead Cosmic Civilizations >>
* Monkeypox has reached the UK – here’s what you need to know >>
* Uber agrees to $148m settlement after 57 MILLION accounts were hacked >>

* NASA reveals how it plans to get astronauts back to the moon by the ‘late 2020s’ and pledges to create ‘a moment when the world holds its breath’ >>
* A swarm of robots weaves giant cocoons using fibreglass thread >>
* 8 things Elon Musk wants you to know about SpaceX’s monster BFR spaceship >>

* Optical Rocket Boosts Electrons to Nearly the Speed of Light >>
* NuScale will start manufacturing its small modular reactor >>
* One in five people in Japan are over 70 >>

* Fully modular self-assembled massive space telescopes >>
* Japanese company ispace says it will launch two missions to the Moon in 2020 and 2021 >>

* How DevOps and Cloud Can Increase Developer Efficiency >>
* How to Create a Self-Healing IT Infrastructure >>
* Not Only Cars: The Six Levels of Autonomous Testing >>
* Running Jenkins Server With Configuration-as-Code >>

* SpaceX Will Send Another Company’s Robots to the Moon in 2021 >>
* Baidu CEO Robin Li says artificial intelligence will have much bigger impact on society than the internet >>
* Hire Smart People and Let Them Tell You What To Do — Just Like Steve Jobs Did >>

* The Facebook Effect Hits Oculus: In VR, Other People Are Everything >>
* Paint it Clear: This Coating Could Make Your AC Obsolete >>
* Scientists Need to Solve These Two Mysteries to Find Life on Mars >>

* Oculus predicts a VR future that includes ultra-thin headsets >>
* Software finds the best way to stick a Mars landing >>
* Google confirms secret Dragonfly project, but won’t say what it is >>

* DeepMind and Unity will work together on AI research for ‘virtual environments’ >>
* Oculus Hybrid Apps let you use 2D & 3D software simultaneously in VR >>
* Everyone Wants to Go to the Moon Again—Logic Be Damned >>

* NASA Is Hosting a ‘Technosignatures’ Workshop on How to Find Alien Technology >>
* The future of human-robot interactions looks a lot more optimistic after this video >>
* What’s Coming and Going on Netflix in October 2018 >>

* Building your own PC for AI is 10x cheaper than renting out GPUs on cloud, apparently >>
* How Google’s DeepMind will train its AI inside Unity’s video game worlds >>
* US government use of AI is shoddy and failing citizens – because no one knows how it works >>

* Princeton Satellite plan to generate pulses of net power fusion within 7 years >>
* A Schoolkid Will Name NASA’s Next Mars Rover >>
* Ancient Mars Had Energy Source for Potential Life Underground >>

* Space2030: At the UN, World Leaders Create a Vision of Peace in Space >>
* Help improve lives through Machine Learning by joining the AWS DeepLens Challenge! >>
* Musk Gives an Update on When a Mars Colony Could be Built >>

* Testing next-gen qubits >>
* Surfer carves it up using hydrofoil >>
* Great Employees Want to Learn. Great Managers Know How to Teach. >>

* Four short links: 26 September 2018 >>
* Humans Are Causing the Earth To Wobble More Than It Should, NASA Finds >>
* Microsoft To Bring Multi-User Virtualization To Windows, Office With Windows Virtual Desktop Service >>

* Hotel Workers Fret Over a New Rival: Alexa at the Front Desk >>
* Tiny super-strong robot ‘caterpillar’ with the equivalent strength of a human able to lift a 26-seat MINIBUS delivers drugs into the body by crawling inside using hundreds of hairy legs (but you have to SWALLOW it first) >>
* Now you can videoconference from the beach! Microsoft to let users blur their background >>

* The end of the red light? Dashboard ‘virtual traffic light’ that lets cars talk to each other could slash commute times by 60% >>
* Japanese company to send robots to the moon on a SpaceX rocket >>
* Does ‘yes’ mean ‘yes?’ Can you give consent to have sex to an app? >>

* Scientists have been drilling into the ocean floor for 50 years – here’s what they’ve found so far >>
* Why trackless trams are ready to replace light rail >>
* DeepMind’s New Research on Linking Memories, and How It Applies to AI >>

* Four short links: 25 September 2018 >>
* Humanizing our future: A night of talks from TED and Verizon >>

* Dna Test Beats Microscopes For Predicting Cancer’s Comeback >>
* Meet the ‘ANYmal’: Creepy robotic dog that can crawl, walk and run shown fending off humans who try to push it over >>
* Growing Brains in Lab >>

* How Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication Could Replace Traffic Lights and Shorten Commutes >>
* How do some of the best AI algorithms perform on real robots? Not well, it turns out >>
* Facebook is racing to build Africa’s internet infrastructure >>

* Alexa skills can now offer one-time-use purchases, like in-game hints or points >>
* You’ll now need a subscription to get the best of Microsoft Office >>
* Tinder borrows Bumble’s women-message-first feature >>

* Snapchat will soon let you shop for products on Amazon with its camera >>
* How the first space tourists will make it back to Earth alive >>
* Why Alibaba is betting big on AI chips and quantum computing >>

* ‘Oumuamua’s Origin: A Work in Progress >>
* Astronomers are Tracking the Interstellar Asteroid ‘Oumuamua to its Home System >>
* The Milky Way is Still Rippling from a Galactic Collision Millions of Years Ago >>

* Astronauts Could Use the ScanMars Device to Search for Water on Mars >>
* Bridging the Gap Between Electronics and Biology >>
* NASA NIAC highlight reel and 2018 symposium livestream started >>

* When Will We Have Artificial Intelligence As Smart as a Human? Here’s What Experts Think >>
* Scientists Just Took A “Spectacular Step” Towards Lab-Grown Human Egg Cells >>
* Quantum radar tech to counter stealth >>

* Machine Learning Confronts the Elephant in the Room >>
* Google Is Getting a Lot More Visual to Keep You on Its Site >>
* Creating Dual Layer Docker Images for Spring Boot Apps >>

* China’s internet ecosystem model increasingly being copied globally >>
* Shop online with image search: Snapchat and Amazon take a leaf out of Taobao’s play book >>
* Google is using AI to predict floods in India and warn users >>

* A man with paralysis can walk again thanks to a nerve-boosting implant >>
* Get in Bed With Skynet; Robot furniture is happening >>
* Psoda automates Agile project management with machine vision and AI >>

* Deezer’s AI mood detection could lead to smarter song playlists >>
* Rovers send back stunning photos back from asteroid surface >>
* Last week in Tech: Beyond the Alexa microwave >>

* Here are the First Pictures From the Parker Solar Probe. Wait… That’s Not the Sun >>
* Microsoft’s AI tech will aid humanitarian efforts >>

* Alphabet Chairman, on Smart Risks, Employee Activism, and the Dangers of Short-Term Thinking >>
* Microsoft merges search across Windows 10, Office, Edge and Bing >>
* Google and Yandex may collaborate on a real-time blacklist of all known pirated works >>

* China splits the internet while the U.S. dithers >>
* The Slackification of work >>
* This automated indoor farm is growing so fast, it makes you think this thing might work >>

* Antarctica Greenhouse Produces Cucumbers, Tomatoes and More in Mars-Like Test >>
* How Do Flat-Earthers Explain the Equinox? We Investigated. >>
* Thanks to Spinal Stimulation, Paralyzed Man Walks the Length of a Football Field >>

* Maniac Is The Most Netflix-y Netflix Show Yet. In A Bad Way >>
* The Morning After: Android is ten years old >>
* A big new home for the ultrasmall MIT.nano building >>

* ‘Evil’ Protein May Be Key In Common Breast Cancer >>
* Star Trek’s tricorder that ‘quickly and accurately’ diagnoses cancer and heart attacks is one step closer >>
* Genetic tool that wipes out malaria could save 500,000 lives each year >>

* Riemann hypothesis likely remains unsolved despite claimed proof >>
* Scientists discover it takes just a third of a second to become attracted to someone >>
* New NASA space laser isn’t a ‘Space Force’ weapon >>

* Observe What Your Istio Mesh Is Doing With Kiali >>
* ‘Made in China 2025’: how new technologies could help Beijing achieve its dream of becoming a semiconductor giant >>
* Chinese companies impress Europeans at exhibitions with high tech >>

* Tour: Amazon store with no cashiers >>
* Mammoths could roam ‘Ice Age Park’ by 2028 >>
* Researchers listen to their guts and go for glory >>

* Scientists discover how to ‘upload knowledge to your brain’ >>
* Criminals could have reduced sentences if they agree to electrical brain stimulation that MAKES them feel guilty, neuroscientists >>
* This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web >>

* How astronauts can get a taste of steak in space >>
* VCs say Silicon Valley isn’t the gold mine it used to be >>
* A Japanese spacecraft just threw two small rovers at an asteroid >>

* Japanese Cargo Ship Launching Toward Space Station Today: Watch Live >>
* Rover Team Confident Curiosity Will Bounce Back from Glitch >>
* Parts of the SpaceX BFR have been completed >>

* Japan places two rovers on an asteroid >>
* More pictures of the new SpaceX BFR and BFS design >>
* Detection of matter falling into blackhole at 30% of lightspeed >>

* Battery made directly from power plant captured carbon dioxide >>
* Glimpse: On the Promise of a Future with Artificial Wombs, and Why It’s Being Stopped by the Present >>
* Glimpse: How Electronic Tattoos Will Change The World — And Ourselves >>

* The reclusive inventor of the Rubik’s Cube wants to do more than amuse you >>
* Space Junk Successfully Captured In Orbit For the First Time (with Video) >>
* Epson’s latest LCD projector does 4K for $2,000 >>

* Just Don’t call it Privacy >>
* Major study: Drug overdoses over a 38-year period reveal hidden trends >>
* Singapore is the crypto sandbox that Asia needs >>

* Google is trying, and failing, to cover its creepy Chinese search engine tracks >>
* This Smart Telescope Finds the Heavenly Bodies for You >>
* Learn how to become a VR game designer with these discounted online courses >>

* These Robots Run, Dance and Flip. But Are They a Business? >>
* Amazon Is Making It Easier To Set Up New IoT Gadgets >>
* How schizophrenia is linked to common personality type >>

* Japan Has Enough Nuclear Material to Build an Arsenal. Its Plan: Recycle. >>
* Should The US Government Break Up Google, Twitter, and Facebook? >>

* MIT Develops New Type of Battery That Gobbles Up Carbon Dioxide >>
* Thieves Who Stole GPS Tracking Devices Were Caught Within Hours >>
* 10 years ago we met the world’s first Android phone, and it didn’t have a headphone jack >>